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Filmmaker · Cambodia

Norodom Sihanouk

Died in 2012

Norodom Sihanouk was born on 31 October 1922, the son of Prince Norodom Suramarit. King of Cambodia in 1941, he obtained independence in 1953, abdicated in 1955 in order to govern, then became head of state in 1960. Overthrown in 1970, he supported the Khmer Rouge from exile, who later placed him under house arrest, and he became king again in 1993. For more than forty years he made films that he wrote himself, almost all of them devoted to love, up to a short film in 2006. He died in Beijing on 15 October 2012.

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